Arthur Herbert Copeland : biography

1898 - 1970

Arthur Herbert Copeland (June 22, 1898 Rochester, New York &ndash; July 6, 1970) was an American mathematician. He graduated from Harvard University in 1926 and taught at Rice University and the University of Michigan. His main interest was in the foundations of probability.

He worked with Paul Erdős on the Copeland-Erdős constant. Copeland has an Erdős number of 1. His son, Arthur Herbert Copeland, Jr., is also a mathematician.